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It's not classist to want to hire someone with experience for a job that demands it. If your money and your startup was on the line, would you want to hire only
by zenlikethat 9y ago
It's not classist to want to hire someone with experience for a job that demands it. If your money and your startup was on the line, would you want to hire only junior programmers and hope it works out? No, time is of the essence and you have investors who put their faith in you, so you're much more likely to put people with experience in charge.
- WorldMaker 9y agoNo one is questioning the desire to hire people with experience. That's a good desire, usually. The "classist" question is why is the pool of people with such experience so small and seem so exclusionary? One specific thing mentioned up thread is the perception that not a lot of small, startup CEOs "graduate" to large, corporate CEOs and asked the question why doesn't "small, startup CEO" count for more experience in these searches than it seems to? The people that believe that classism may be to blame wonder if it is simply and inevitably because they are outsiders to the "proper" upper class or other such cliques. Anecdotally, there seem to be counter-examples on both sides of that hypothesis, and I don't think either side has enough data to prove or disprove the hypothesis.